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Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen and welcome to Jarden’s Corporation conference call. I want to note that today’s call is being recorded. This afternoon’s call will begin with management making some formal remarks. When they have concluded a question-and-answer period will follow. (Operator Instructions).

I will now turn the call over to Rachel Schacter of ICR. Please go ahead.

Rachel Schacter

Good afternoon and thank you for joining us for Jarden’s first quarter fiscal 2012 results conference call. In accordance with Regulation FD or Fair Disclosure, we are webcasting this conference call. Any redistribution, retransmission or rebroadcast of this call in any form, without the expressed written consent of Jarden is strictly prohibited.

Before we begin, please take note of our cautionary statement regarding forward-looking statements at the end of our earnings release issued today. While forward-looking statements made during this conference call are based on currently available information, our actual results could differ materially from those predicted. However, we undertake no obligation to update any such statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.